Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near General Luna in Philippines

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from General Luna in Philippines. Event id: us10007cqr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007cqr. Global time and date of event 27/11/16 / 2016-11-27 11:00:28 / November 27, 2016 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 19:00:28 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.5879° East, latitude 9.6337° North, depth = 61.92 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 61.92 km (38 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Claver, Aras-asan, Tago (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Tandag (c. 29 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Socorro (c. 9 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cantilan (c. 9 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Dapa (c. 8 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tago (c. 6 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Claver (c. 5 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Aras-asan (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 49 km ESE of General Luna, Philippines.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.5879° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.6337° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	61.92 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km ESE of General Luna, Philippines	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-27 11:00:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-11 08:50:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.736	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10007cqr	Id of event.
Event Code	10007cqr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007cqr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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